The Dutch company Fairphone just revealed the release of their new smartphone, the Fairphone 2. Aiming than ever to creating a product in compliance with fair standards, this new device promises to be particularly attractive and ethics.
It was in 2013 that things really started for the company. Following the release of the first version of Fairphone. With over 60,000 copies sold, the company begins to see more and looked for a way to expand their influence by having:
a positive impact throughout the consumer electronics value chain, namely mining, designing, manufacturing and life cycle.
A report they had achieved denounced the unacceptable practices of some players in the electronics industry with use of child labor in the blood minerals. The Fairphone was a response to these methods.
The company wanted to prove that other more accurate methods were possible, that monitoring of the supply chain was feasible and that one could select its suppliers. Note that in this time, each sale Fairphone generates money for a labor background. The first Fairphone could generate more than € 250,000.
The Fairphone 2 will integrate and improve the initiatives undertaken with the first Fairphone, including the supply of minerals “no conflict”, including tin and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo, investing in a second fund Provident controlled by the workers with his new production partner in China, and improving its electronic waste recycling program began in Ghana.
If the first Fairphone had suffered criticism for including its autonomy, its performance and the use of a jelly bean older, it seems that it is quite different for the second name. The Amsterdam team was keen to develop a sustainable smartphone and for this, they opted for a partially modular architecture allowing the owner to optimize the life of your smartphone thanks to its simplicity repair.
Featuring retail price 525 € VAT, preorders for the Fairphone 2 will begin in the summer for deliveries which will take place this fall.
- Display: 5-inch Full HD Gorilla® Glass 3
- Processor: 801 Qualcomm® Snapdragon ™
- Ram: 2GB
- Storage: 32GB
- Micro SD slot: yes
- Camera: 8 Megapixels
- Front camera: n.c.
- Battery: 2420 mAh removable lithium-ion
- Connectivity: 4G LTE (category 4) / Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n / ac / Bluetooth 4.0 LE / GPS
- 4G LTE: yes
- Dimensions: 144.4 x 72.3 x 8.6 mm
- Weight: 160 grams
- OS: Android 5.1 Lollipop
Here is a video presentation of Fairphone 2:
Fairphone 2 - smartphone with an ingenious modular design
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